The 35-nation European conference in Geneva again failed to fix a date for a final session in Helsinki despite progress on two major unresolved issues, conference sources said. France proposed that a target date be set for the Helsinki summit but the United States maintained its position that major issues must be resolved first. The issues on which progress was reported were the rights of World War II allies in Berlin and Germany and procedures for ensuring that conference decisions are carried out.
Former crew members of a Navy submarine said that on an intelligence patrol in Soviet waters the commander was ordered to file a series of falsified reports late in 1969 after a collision with a Soviet submarine. The USS Gato, participating in what the Navy called the Holystone program, a highly classified intelligence operation, struck the Soviet submarine in the Barents Sea, about 15 to 25 miles from the entrance to the White Sea, in northern Russia, the crew members said. A few days after the collision, they said, the commanding officer of the Gato was ordered by the Navy’s Atlantic Fleet command in Norfolk, Virginia, to prepare 25 copies of a top-secret after-action report alleging that the submarine had broken off her patrols two days before the collision because of a propeller shaft malfunction.
Twenty‐four leaders of the former Greek junta, including former President George Papadopoulos, will go on trial on charges of treason on July 28, it was announced here today. The chief prosecutor, Constantine Golousis, said that the trial of the leaders of the military junta that fell last year would take place in Korydallos Prison, near Piraeus, where most of the defendants are being held. On Wednesday Greece’s Supreme Court rejected the defendants’ appeals and opened the way for the trial. The offenses carry a possible death penalty. An indictment issued last May charges that the junta in its 1967 coup overthrew a parliamentary government in violation of the Constitution.
The police have turned up new evidence that they say links a man known as Carlos, sought in several countries for the killing last week of two counterespionage agents in Paris, with two terrorist actions carried out last year by groups supporting the Palestinian cause. The attacks were on the French Embassy in the Hague by Japanese of the terrorist “Red Army” and on the St. Germain‐des‐Prés drugstore in Paris. The police said that new evidence shows that Carlos and a comrade, a Lebanese named Michel Moukarbel, helped plan and pay for and may have helped carry out the two attacks. Mr. Moukarbel was also killed last week.
Secretary General Ali Atika of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries said in an interview published in Kuwait that conflicting interests among Western oil importers will prevent them from adopting sharing schemes that would help keep prices down by lowering world demand for oil. “I believe that the international energy agency has a confrontation tendency and the producing countries should remain well alert against all eventualities.” he said.
The Shia Amal militia, founded by Imam Musa al-Sadr, was being instructed on the use of landmines and explosives by the al Fatah branch of the PLO in Lebanon, when the lesson went horribly wrong. A huge explosion killed 42 of the fighters, and wounded more than 80.
The degree of American support for Israel, Secretary of State Kissinger suggested today, would be linked to whether the Israelis “take a chance” and make the territorial concessions needed to bring about a new accord with the Egyptians in Sinai. The Israeli cabinet will meet tomorrow to decide whether to withdraw from the strategic mountain passes of Mitla and Gidi. It had refused to do so earlier because of dissatisfaction with the limited political concessions offered by Egypt. The Israelis have expressed concern that their request for $2.5‐billion in economic and military aid in the fiscal year that began Tuesday would not be fully supported by the Ford Administration unless they gave up the mountain passes. Mr. Kissinger seemed to confirm that Israeli belief, although, at another point, he said that the United States was committed to Israel’s survival and security.
Fears of war, recession and Arab guerrilla attacks have severely reduced immigration to Israel. So few American Jews are moving here that the Jewish Agency is closing three immigration centers in the United States.
The United Nations’ 25‐year‐old aid program for Palestinian Arab refugees will run out of funds this fall unless additional contributions are given in the nest few weeks, according to diplomats and officials at the UN. They say intensified efforts have been made to obtain additional help from the Arab oil-exporting countries in particular, but so far there has been no response. As a consequence, the United Nations Aid Agency for Palestinian Refugees may have to begin dismissing thousands of employes in September, scale back on food rations now going to 530,000 and cut the educational and training program.
Continuing to seek support for her government’s new authoritarian attitude, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi met with several of India’s top labor leaders. An official account of the meeting said that the union leaders had “assured the Prime Minister of fullest cooperation from the workers.” According to reports received in New Delhi there were dozens of additional political arrests in other parts of the country. Policemen raided regional offices of anti-government organizations that were banned by government decree Friday and seized files and records and sealed the offices. Many of the members of the outlawed organizations had been arrested earlier in the week, while others had gone underground.
President Suharto of Indonesia received assurances here today from President Ford that the United States remained committed to an active presence in Southeast Asia despite the American withdrawal from Indochina. “The fact that we had a recent tragedy in Vietnam should redouble our interest, and does, in the stability of Southeast Asia,” Mr. Ford told President Suharto in a luncheon toast. The Indonesian leader’s visit to the United States was scheduled long before it became apparent that American military and diplomatic involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia would be terminated and that in Laos and Thailand would diminish sharply. But President Suharto wanted to hear personally from President Ford how the United States intended to conduct its foreign policy in the region, according to State Department officials.
Premier Ta keo Miki said today that his visit to Washington next month would be of “utmost importance” to a strengthening of relations between Japan and the United States and thus would “contribute more to both countries and the world.” It will be the first meeting between the 67‐year‐old Japanese leader and President Ford. Mr. Miki noted that it would take place at a time when the United States and Japan were striving to cope with vast international changes, especially in Asia. While in Washington, Mr. Miki is expected to discuss the situation in Asia following the Communist victories in Indochina, security arrangements between the United States and Japan, and energy problems with President Ford and other high United States Government officials.
The Australian House of Representatives will meet in special session on Wednesday to receive documents from Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the controversy over overseas borrowing by the government. Australian newspapers for a week have published documents on the government’s efforts to raise money through mysterious foreign brokers. Prime Minister Whitlam dismissed Deputy Prime Minister James F. Cairns on Tuesday for his alleged part in loan dealings.
Mexico’s President Luis Echeverria and Panama’s chief of state, General Omar Torrijos, urged the United States to give up its hold on the Panama Canal. The appeal was in a joint communique issued at a press conference after Echeverria and Torrijos held talks near Agua Azul, Mexico. Echeverria said that “Latin America is impatient because it recognizes the sovereignty of Panama” regarding the Panama Canal Zone.
Venezuela’s oil industry will be administered by a new state company following nationalization, but the doors will remain open for ample cooperation with multinational companies, President Carlos Andres Perez said. The company, Petroven, will administer approximately 20 other state firms which will conserve the basic organization structure employed by the score of foreign firms which now operate the nation’s 2.5 million-barrel-a-day industry, Perez said.
A five-member committee of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights investigating charges of human rights violations in Chile will submit a report even though it has been denied entry to the country, U.N. officials said. The committee charged with investigating claims of torture and illegal imprisonment had to change its plans when the president of Chile’s junta, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, declared the group was barred from the country. They said the report would be based on testimony already taken from Chileans who fled their country after the military coup against the last Marxist President Salvador Allende in September, 1973.
Cape Verde gained independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule of the 15 inhabited islands off of the coast of West Africa. At Praia, Portugal’s Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves turning over power to National Assembly President Abilio Duarte. Later in the day, the assembly elected Aristides Pereira as President and Pedro Pires as Prime Minister. Both men are leaders of the Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde that has guided both countries to independence from Portugal with the intention of merging them later.
An American congressional delegation, invited to check whether Soviet missiles were based in Somalia as claimed by the Pentagon, reported the trip as “very useful and instructive,” upon leaving the capital of Mogadiscio to return to Washington. They did not indicate what they had seen. Senator Dewey F. Bartlett (R-Oklahoma), who headed the group, was escorted where he wanted to go, by and large, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said, adding, “The Somalis were extremely generous and helpful.”
British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan will fly to Uganda Wednesday for talks with President Idi Amin following the African leader’s decision to spare the life of lecturer Denis Hills, 61, Zaire radio said. Callaghan previously had refused to visit Uganda under duress, even to plead for Hills’ life. A Foreign Office spokesman in London confirmed that an effort was being made to arrange for the visit, but said no definite arrangements had been made.
Leading black Rhodesian politicians opened talks today with three African Presidents, seeking to eliminate differences and present a united front in efforts to win black majority rule from Prime Minister Ian D. Smith of Rhodesia. President Julius K. Nyerere of Tanzania gave airport receptions to two large delegations arriving separately for the talks. Arriving from Lusaka, Zambia, were President Kenneth D. Kaunda and four leaders of Rhodesia’s African National Congress —B ishop Abel Muzerewa, the Rev. Ndabaninge Sithole, Joshua Nkomo and James Robert Chickerema. They were preceded by President Samora M. Machel of Mozambique, which gained independence from Portugal 10 days ago.
The Young Republicans national convention in Indianapolis adopted a resolution blaming President Ford as well as Congress for the nation’s economic woes. The resolution, adopted 393 to 304 after much debate, noted. “The Republican Administration has unfortunately followed the Democrat philosophy of deficit spending and an unbalanced budget, thus endangering our nation’s economic stability.” The measure called on Mr. Ford to adopt a “financially responsible policy of balancing the federal budget, which can only be achieved through elimination of deficit spending.”
Debris piled up on four New York City beaches as laid-off parks department workers thwarted garbage disposal. Trucks were vandalized and 80 recently fired workers set up picket lines at Coney Island, Manhattan and Brighton beaches in Brooklyn and at Orchard Beach in the Bronx. City officials said that pickets had agreed later not to obstruct the cleanup but predicted that it would take a full day to remove the holiday mess.
Mayors of the country’s largest cities called for $2 billion in emergency federal urban aid as they began their annual meeting in Boston. Mayor Joseph Alioto of San Francisco, chairman of the United States Conference of Mayors, and other mayors expressed support at a news conference for an emergency urban-aid bill pending in Congress that would provide special grants to a city when its unemployment rate exceeded 6 percent for three consecutive months. The bill is known as the Intergovernmental Anti-recession Assistance Act.
The Ford administration is preparing a gun control bill that seeks to limit the proliferation of handguns through changes in licensing laws affecting gun dealers. The bill would reduce to 40,000 from 156,000 the number of persons licensed to sell guns. Dealers who do not investigate the credentials of gun purchasers would be most affected by the proposed licensing restrictions.
Firearms registration is favored by a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup Poll. The survey found that 55% of gun owners and 76% of those who do not own guns supported registration. Of the 3,108 households checked, 44% had at least one gun. Gun ownership appeared highest in smaller communities and in the South, where 58% of those surveyed said there was some kind of gun in their homes. Overall, 67% of the persons polled favored gun registration.
Comedian Dick Gregory was arrested for the second time in two days on charges of demonstrating without a permit in front of the White House. He was protesting alleged illegal activities by the CIA. Gregory was released after the first incident when charges were dismissed on the motion of the prosecution. The activist compared the Rockefeller commission investigation of the CIA to the Watergate coverup and said, “We are asking that there be a thorough and public investigation by Congress and a grand jury. and that the President remove (Director) William Colby and replace him with someone not a part of the CIA.”
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader charged that recent gasoline price increases are providing domestic oil companies with a $2 billion windfall profit. In a statement, Nader said President Ford’s $2-per-barrel tariff on imported oil is only partly responsible for the price increases. He said a $2-per-barrel increase in the price of American oil is another major factor in the price increases. Nader charged that Mr. Ford’s tariff on imported oil will not reduce consumption of imports, as oil users cannot shift their purchases to domestic oil because domestic production has not increased. Federal energy officials earlier had said gasoline prices would rise by 3 to 5 cents per gallon this summer, characterizing the increase as largely seasonal. Last week, several major oil companies announced price hikes.
Juries are awarding more money than ever before to people who were injured because of other people’s negligence or misconduct, and to the estates of persons who died as a result of another’s negligence or misconduct. Before 1962, a million-dollar award for personal injuries or libel was unheard of. But since then, there have been dozens.
Diabetics taking drugs that reduce blood-sugar levels should not suddenly stop the medication because of a Food and Drug Administration warning. Dr. Roy Wiggins Jr., director of the Center for Metabolic Studies in Atlanta, said. He criticized the FDA for issuing a warning against hypoglycemics over the 4th of July weekend, when many physicians’ offices are closed. The FDA, saying the drugs might increase the risk of heart disease for diabetics, is proposing that the drugs carry warnings. Wiggins said diabetics should check with their physicians before discontinuing the drugs and warned against substituting insulin injections for hypoglycemics. He said his center had taken no position on use of the drugs.
The Phyllis Cormack, a fishing boat operated by the ecology-minded Greenpeace Foundation of Vancouver, British Columbia, sailed from San Francisco to again begin chasing Soviet whalers off Northern California in an attempt to prevent the harpooning of whales. Crewmen last week maneuvered their skiff between six Russian whaling vessels and one of the sea-going mammals. The group intends to repeat the tactic-hoping the Russians will cease harpooning whales for fear of wounding a human being and creating an international incident.
Flash floods on small rivers in southeastern Minnesota, fed by up to 6 inches of rain, forced hundreds of holiday campers to flee. The Wabasha County Sheriff’s Department ordered evacuation of Spring Creek Park along the Zumbro River as water rose as much as 8 feet. About 200 vehicles were abandoned. Whitewater State Park also was reported under water. The National Weather Service said new rains would probably mean a second crest for most tributaries of the Red River in northwestern Minnesota — an area already hard-hit by flooding. Crop damage from floods and rain in Minnesota and eastern North Dakota has been estimated at $1.6 billion.
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano erupted after 25 years of inactivity, toward the city of Hilo. Lava fountains of up to 200 feet high broke out just before midnight in the volcano’s oval‐shaped crater, which is about four miles long and two miles wide at the largest points. The fountaining was confined in the summit crater for most of the night, abated somewhat, and then extended a rift zone outside the crater. Scientists on the island said there was no threat to life or property because Mauna Loa’s summit is far from any civilization.
Dmitri Shostakovich completed his final composition, Opus 147 Sonata for viola and piano. He would die five weeks later on August 9.
At Knebworth Festival in England, Pink Floyd debut their album “Wish You Were Here” with pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flies into the stage.
Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title, defeating the #1 ranked Jimmy Connors, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7 and 6-4. Jimmy Connors, the man everybody thought unbeatable, was thrashed by Arthur Ashe in the Wimbledon men’s final today. Before a stunned center court crowd, Ashe won in 125 minutes and became the first black man to take the highest honor in tennis. Althea Gibson, a black, won the women’s title in 1957 and 1958. For many years Ashe had waited in the wings, his best efforts here having been a losing semi‐finalist in 1968 and 1969. He will be 32 next week, and had set two objectives for this year — to win the World Championship Tennis and Wimbledon crowns. Amazingly, he has achieved both.
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The Braves, after eking out a 4–3 victory in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, turned on the power with three-run homers by Vic Correll and Ralph Garr to beat the Astros again in the second game, 8–4. Darrell Evans, who scored twice in the lidlifter, drove in what proved to be the Braves’ winning run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning. Ray Sadecki gained his first victory in an Atlanta uniform, but needed the help of Elias Sosa after Cliff Johnson hit a two-run homer for the Astros in the ninth. The Astros jumped off to a 4–0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap, but the Braves erupted for five runs in the fourth, three scoring on Correll’s homer. Garr rapped his round-tripper in the sixth to put the game far out of the Astros’ reach.
Richie Zisk smashed two homers in a 13-hit attack, but the Pirates needed an unearned run to gain a 5–4 victory over the Cubs, who fell short with a four-run rally in the ninth inning. Zisk homered in the second and fourth. In between, the Pirates counted a run in the third on a single by Paul Popovich and double by Al Oliver. Richie Hebner and Oliver singled in the seventh, chasing Ray Burris. After Ken Frailing relieved, Dave Parker singled, driving in Hebner, and when Rob Sperring let the ball get past him in right field, Oliver also crossed the plate. As a result, the Cubs were unable to catch up in the ninth. Ramon Hernandez, who followed Jim Rooker and Kent Tekulve to the mound, ended the rally by striking out Rick Monday with two men on base.
Greg Luzinski and Tommy Hutton batted in two runs apiece in the first game and Ollie Brown and Garry Maddox had four hits each in the second game as the Phillies defeated the Mets in a twi-night doubleheader, 8–2 and 10–7. Ron Schueler pitched the opener for the Phillies and allowed only four hits in his first route-going performance of the season. Luzinski accounted for his RBIs with a double and homer, while Hutton plated a pair with a double. John Stearns homered for the Mets. In the nightcap, the Phillies broke a 4–4 tie with a six-run outburst in the fifth. Maddox led off with a triple and later drove in a run with a single on his second appearance at the plate during the inning. Dick Allen, Dave Cash, Luzinski, Mike Schmidt and Bob Boone singled home the other runs. John Milner rapped a three-run homer for the Mets in the third and Dave Kingman hit a solo swat in the ninth.
The Cardinals, after being shut out by Dennis Blair and Dan Warthen, 3–0, in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, came back with a two-man shutout of their own when John Curtis and Al Hrabosky combined to blank the Expos, 1–0. Blair was lifted after Luis Melendez led off with a single in the seventh inning for the Cards’ fourth hit. Warthen completed the whitewashing, although allowing four more safeties. The Expos scored an unearned run off Bob Forsch in the second inning and sewed up their victory in the fifth. Tony Scott tripled and scored on a single by Tim Foli, who then stole second and counted on a single by Mike Jorgensen. Curtis allowed only four hits in the nightcap before Hrabosky took over after Pepe Mangual singled in the ninth inning. Hrabosky retired the last three batters. The Cards counted the only run of the game to beat Woodie Fryman when Ted Sizemore singled and Reggie Smith doubled in the fourth.
Playing before 49,618, the largest crowd in San Diego Stadium’s history, the Padres failed to distinguish themselves and lost to the Reds, 6–3, because of two errors that resulted in four unearned runs. The Reds’ two other tallies were helped along by balks by Brent Strom, one in the first inning and the other in the sixth. In between, an error by Tito Fuentes led to a tally in the fourth. Then in the seventh, Cesar Geronimo reached second with one out when Gene Locklear dropped his fly ball to left field. After Fred Norman was retired, the Padres walked Pete Rose intentionally. Merv Rettenmund batted for Ken Griffey and doubled to drive in two runs. Joe Morgan followed with another two-bagger to add the Reds’ final tally.
John Hale, who hit his first major league homer to produce two runs in the sixth inning, also singled and scored in the eighth to bring the Dodgers a 5–4 victory over the Giants. Dave Rader hit a two-run homer for the Giants in the second and Von Joshua added a solo swat for a 3–2 lead in the fifth before Ron Cey doubled and Hale homered in the sixth. The Giants tied the score in the seventh when Cey threw wildly for a two-base error on a grounder by Derrel Thomas and Willie Montanez singled. In the eighth, Hale singled and advanced to second on a sacrifice by Ivan DeJesus. Steve Yeager struck out. The Giants then passed pinch-hitter Willie Crawford intentionally, but Davey Lopes wrecked the move with a single that drove in Hale.
Buddy Bell collects a double and two homers, one a grand slam, and drives in 6 runs as Cleveland crushes the visiting Red Sox, 12–2. Roric Harrison goes the distance for the win. Bell hit his jackpot wallop off Steve Barr in the second inning when the Indians piled up five runs, all unearned as the result of an error by Denny Doyle with two out. Bell followed with a solo swat off Jim Burton in the fourth and doubled in the eighth for his sixth RBI of the game. George Hendrick also homered for the Indians.
Breaking a tie with three runs in the seventh inning, the Orioles gained a 5–2 victory over the Yankees, who went down to their seventh straight defeat. The Orioles, winning for the eighth time in their last 10 games, opened the decisive stanza with singles by Mark Belanger and Ken Singleton. After Bobby Grich drove Roy White to the wall in left field with a line drive, Belanger advancing to third after the catch, the Yankees brought in Dick Tidrow to relieve Rudy May. Tommy Davis grounded to Ed Brinkman, whose throw home was wide as Belanger scored the tie-breaking run. Singleton took third and Davis reached second on the error. Lee May then singled, plating a pair of insurance tallies.
The Tigers forged in front with a three-run rally in the fourth inning, enabling Vern Ruhle to defeat the Brewers, 3–2. The Brewers scored in the second on a double by Gorman Thomas and single by Darrell Porter before Hank Aaron provided their other run in the fourth with his ninth homer of the season and 742nd of his career. The Tigers began their comeback against Jim Colborn by loading the bases in the home half on walks to Dan Meyer and Bill Freehan around a single by Willie Horton. Jack Pierce struck out but Leon Roberts hit a sacrifice fly, scoring Meyer. Tom Veryzer then singled, driving in Horton and Freehan to decide the outcome of the game.
An inside-the-park homer by Frank White in the eighth inning provided the Royals with their tie-breaking run in a 6–4 victory over the White Sox. The Royals held a 4–1 lead before the White Sox rallied to tie the score in the top half of the eighth on a triple by Bucky Dent, infield out by Carlos May, pass to Ken Henderson and homer by Bill Melton. In the Royals’ half, White smashed a drive high off the center field wall and raced around the bases when the ball caromed over Henderson’s head. The Royals added an insurance run before the inning ended when Jim Wohlford doubled and George Brett singled.
Helping to beat himself with an error, Fergie Jenkins was the loser when the Twins scored in the eighth inning to defeat the Rangers, 5–4. Roy Howell homered for the Rangers, while the Twins had circuit clouts by Tony Oliva and Rod Carew in forging a 4–4 tie. Jenkins committed his error on a high hopper to the mound by Carew. After a sacrifice by Dan Ford and infield out by Johnny Briggs, Oliva walked and Eric Soderholm followed with a single to drive in the deciding run.
Allowing only four hits, Ed Figueroa pitched the Angels to a 2–0 victory over the Athletics. Stan Bahnsen, who started for the A’s, uncorked four wild pitches in 6 ⅓ innings. Two of them led to the Angels’ first run in the fifth. Dave Collins walked, advanced to second on a wild pitch, took third on an infield out and scored on a wild pitch. The second run came in the seventh on another walk to Collins, a stolen base by pinch-runner Morris Nettles and single by Mickey Rivers for his third hit of the game.
Houston Astros 3, Atlanta Braves 4
Houston Astros 4, Atlanta Braves 8
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Chicago Cubs 4
Boston Red Sox 2, Cleveland Indians 12
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Detroit Tigers 3
Chicago White Sox 4, Kansas City Royals 6
San Francisco Giants 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Texas Rangers 4, Minnesota Twins 5
Baltimore Orioles 5, New York Yankees 2
California Angels 2, Oakland Athletics 0
New York Mets 2, Philadelphia Phillies 8
New York Mets 7, Philadelphia Phillies 10
Cincinnati Reds 6, San Diego Padres 3
Montreal Expos 3, St. Louis Cardinals 0
Montreal Expos 0, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Born:
Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player, one time WTA #1 ranked doubles’ player (French Open, Wimbledon doubles 2003, US Open 2000; US Open mixed doubles 1999); in Yokohama, Japan.
Chris Gratton, Canadian NHL centre (Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, Buffalo Sabres, Phoenix Coyotes, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers, Columbus Blue Jackets), in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
Christoph Brandner, Austrian National Team and NHL left wing and right wing (Olympics, 2002; Minnesota Wild), in Bruck an der Mur, Austria.
Alberto Castillo, Cuban MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, Arizona Diamondbacks), in La Habana, Cuba.
Died:
Otto Skorzeny, 67, Nazi Germany colonel who carried out the Gran Sasso raid, the rescue of Benito Mussolini from prison.
Pavlo Virsky, 70, Soviet Ukrainian choreographer.
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